First and foremost, let me APOLOGIZE for you having to wait so long for an update. I promise I will try to do better. But as you know life happens and it happened to me in a big way over the last months since I had a chance to update. My co-teacher at work quit, leaving me to do all the work in my classroom. Then my cousin was shot to death across the street from my great-grandmother's home. The good news is I have a new co-teacher and my great-grandmother is handling everything as well as can be expected.

Thank you so much for your reviews and thanks to those that played along with my little question. The title of the last chapter was a quote from , A Midsummer's Night Dream which is one of my favorite works by William Shakespeare, if you haven't read it, I really recommend it. I know he's hard to read, but get the version that translates Old English into Modern English in the margins. If you really can't read it, watch the movie with Calista Flockhart, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kevin Kline. Another good Shakespeare play is Much Ado About Nothing. The movie version of that stars Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branaugh, Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, and Michael Keaton. Hope I put something on your reading or movie lists.

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Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries, if I did I would Nina Dobrev would be Katherine all the time and Elena would fall of the face of the planet. (Honestly, I love Nina, but I hate the way they sometimes write Elena as a syrupy, sickeningly sweet damsel in distress in need of being rescued, all the time. When she's Katherine she lights up the screen with her wackiness. Am I alone in that opinion?)

Chapter 14 -You Can't Handle the Truth

Salvatore Boardinghouse

Damon closed the door and followed Elena into the living room. "What can I help you with my dear, sweet Elena," Damon said as he took a seat on the sofa.

"Why did you do it, Damon? Why did you lead Bonnie on, knowing you feel nothing for her?" Elena demanded.

"I don't have to explain anything to you, Elena. What happened between me and the witch is between me and her," Damon snarled.

Elena was at a loss for words. She couldn't believe that Damon refused to discuss his relationship with Bonnie with her. She was his friend, the only person who believed there was good in him. He had destroyed Bonnie's belief in him, now she was the only person he could turn to, and Elena would make him see that.

"You don't have to explain it to me. I already know. You used her to try to get in the tomb. But you also used her for another reason. You used her to get to me. You thought that by going after my best friend, I would get jealous and fall into your arms," Elena blurted out indignantly.

"What the hell are you smoking, Elena?" Damon laughed. "What happened between me and Samantha has nothing to do with you. I wanted to get in the tomb, and I needed Bonnie to accomplish it."

"Stop lying Damon! You've been trying to get me into your bed every since you met me and saw my likeness to Katherine. You didn't have to get Bonnie to fall for you to try and get her to open that tomb. You could have just tried to be her friend or blackmail her. You tried to seduce her to make me jealous. Just admit it."

"I can't believe it, you're really jealous about me and Bonnie. You believe that I did all those things to get with you. You really are like Katherine." Damon said, astounded by how like Katherine Elena was turning out to be.

"I'm nothing like Katherine and I'm not jealous. What could I possibly be jealous of, Bonnie meant nothing to you, you just used her to get a reaction out of me," Elena sneered.

"Elena, if you can't be honest with me, at least be honest with yourself," Damon said. "We may not know how, but believe me when I say you are definitely related to Katherine Pierce.

Damon walked over to where Elena was standing and leaned in closer to her, his breath grazing her ear. "How did you really feel when you walked in on me and Bonnie on her couch that morning? Because I don't think you were upset that I would do something to her, I think you were pissed because it wasn't you I was comforting. It wasn't you I was holding close. And it most definitely wasn't you I was kissing the other night. That's what's got you so hot and bothered about me and my witch, the fact that I haven't been sniffing around you lately."

"You're delusional," Elena whispered, even as she leaned in closer to Damon. Even as that dark part of herself screamed that he was right. She was jealous of the attention he was giving Bonnie; the attention she was used to having for herself. She tried to stop herself, but she felt that she had to remind Damon of what he really wanted, rose on her toes and pressed her lips against Damon's.

Damon was startled when he felt Elena's lips on his, he was just trying to egg her on, he had no intention of making any real move on her. He had enough woman troubles on his plate with Bonnie and Katherine. But he couldn't help but compare the kiss of his brother's girlfriend to the one he had shared with her best friend and the woman who shared her face. With Bonnie, he felt felt her power, tasted her innocence and passion; with Katherine he devoured the wickedness of her maniacal plotting that she put into the kisses she gave him, they had reveled in her deviousness; with Elena there was nothing, no spark, no hint of pleasure in kissing the girl who his brother loved, the only thing he felt was her desperation to be the center of attention.

Damon pulled away from Elena and looked toward the doorway. Elena followed his gaze and nearly passed out at the sight of Stefan standing there.

Bennett House

"Bon, I'm here," Caroline said as she entered the house. Bonnie had said it was urgent that she come back to the house. Caroline had shared a quick lunch with Matt, who was handling his "missing" sister's birthday as well as could be expected. Actually Caro was glad Bonnie had called. Kelly Donovan had made her way back to Mystic Falls and was once again relying on her son to take care of her. Kelly had also made it very clear to Caro that she would never accept her as a suitable replacement for Elena. Putting on the understanding face through the constant barbs and put downs had been grating on Caro's nerves and she was on the verge of raking Kelly's eyes out when Bonnie's phone call had rescued her. It was strange the rage she had felt toward Kelly, Caroline had never felt that angry before, it was as if something was trying to burst out of her and take Kelly down. Caroline just shook her head and chalked it up to Kelly Donovan's "sparkling" personality.

"Caro, thanks for coming back so soon. Sorry to drag you away from Mattie," Bonnie said coming from the kitchen.

"It's cool. Matt's taking care of his mother," Caro said, adding air quotes to the word mother.

"She's back in town," Bonnie said as they sat on the living room sofa.

"Yep, and drunker than ever," Caroline said, leaning her head back against the back of the sofa, closing her blue eyes. "She's also made it crystal clear that I will never measure up to the all perfect Elena."

"Oh, Caroline. I'm sorry about that."

"It's okay, now tell me what was so urgent that I needed to haul ass back here."

Bonnie opened her palm to reveal Caroline's locket. "You left this here," she said as Caroline lifted it.

"I'm such a blonde, thanks for taking care of it for me. My dad would have killed me if I lost it. But you could have told me this in a text, Bonnie," Caroline said, confused.

"That's not all. Do you remember me telling you I'm a witch?" Bonnie questioned.

"Oh, not this again."

"Yes, this again. It's true Caro, I'm a witch. Here I'll prove it," Bonnie said. She then proceeded to lift the necklace with her mind.

"H-h-how did you do that?" Caroline asked.

"I told you that, twice now. I'm a witch Caroline. A real life Charmed One" Bonnie said.

"This is too much to process," Caroline said as she slid from the couch onto the floor.

"Caroline, there is so much more than that," Bonnie said as she sat down in front of her friend. She then proceeded to tell Caroline the truth about Damon, Stefan, Katherine, Emily, the Lockwoods and the town Council.

"Wow, I can't believe this. It's like a twisted version of the Wizard of Oz. Vampires, witches and weres, oh my," Caroline said, trying to make light, but Bonnie could tell that she was on edge. "And Damon hypnotized me to forget the things he had done to me."

"Yeah, I'm sorry that we didn't tell you then. But you already thought Elena and I were playing a joke on you when we told you I was a witch the first time, and we just thought it would be better if you just forgot. We made sure to give you the vervain and kept you and Damon as far away from each other as possible. It was actually easier because you hated Damon even though you didn't remember him hurting you."

"Then you let him hurt you and I encouraged you to go after him," Caroline replied.

"That was not your fault. I knew what Damon was, and I still fell for him. But that's neither here nor there. This is about you and how you're feeling about all of this."

"I'm still finding it hard to believe, but there's too much evidence for me to not believe it. I just want to know why now, why are you telling me all this now?"

"Because there's more and it has to do with you. You, and Stefan's ex-fiancee Lisette Chamberlain-Forbes."

"Forbes, as in my family. Are you telling me that Stefan was involved with a member of my family?" Caroline asked.

"Yes, he was engaged before the whole mess with Katherine started. Long story short, Katherine compelled Stefan and Lisette to break their engagement, when Katherine was locked away the compulsion faded, but by that time your great-grandmother had married someone else and refused to leave him for Stefan. Stefan went to Emily, my great-grandmother, and struck a deal to bind the powers of Lisette and her descendents to protect them from the Council" Bonnie said.

"I'm almost afraid to ask, but what kind of powers?" Caroline said quietly.

"Lisette was a werewolf," Bonnie answered.

"Th-ht-that would mean, I'm..."

"A werewolf, but your powers are dormant because of Emily's spell," Bonnie finished.

"Okay, just so I have everything straight. You're a witch; Damon and Stef are vampires; Tyler and I are werewolves, but my powers are dormant because Stefan asked your great-grandmother to put a spell on mine to bind her powers; Elena looks like some vampire chick that Damon's been obsessed for nearly a century and a half and he used you to try and get her out of a tomb that your great-grandmother sealed her in. On top of that my mom and most of the founding families belong to some secret occult hunting club. Is that about it?" Caroline asked in a dazed voice.

Bonnie smile a wry little smile, "That would be the Cliff's Notes version."

Caroline looked at Bonnie, smiled and then proceeded to fall into a dead faint on the floor.

Salvatore Boardinghouse

Elena pushed away from Damon and made her way to Stefan. "Stefan please..."she said.

"I don't want to hear it Elena, I don't want to hear your excuses or lame explanations," Stefan said as he walked away from her.

"It wasn't like that Stefan, he..."

"I was standing there a long time Elena, long enough to see you initiate the kiss, so don't even try to tell me Damon kissed you. Not only did you kiss him, but he was the one who pushed you away," Stefan said, cutting off Elena's lie.

"Finally, some credit," Damon said from behind the bar, as he poured himself a drink, anticipating the show that was about to begin.

"Shut up Damon. This is all your fault, if you hadn't taken advantage of Bonnie none of this would be happening," Elena yelled.

"Don't you mean if he hadn't been spending all of his time with Bonnie, and had been flirting and talking to you instead," Stefan sneered.

"No, I don't mean that. I love you Stefan. The kiss was a mistake, something that happened in the heat of the moment," Elena replied. "It meant nothing to me, absolutely nothing."

"That makes two of us, because I would felt more giving mouth to mouth to a dead fish," Damon said in the background.

"Shut the hell up you asshole," Elena said, crying now.

"Don't blame him for this Elena. It's been coming for a long time now. You are just like Katherine. You want to have me and Damon. It doesn't work like that Elena. Damon and I may not be alive, but we are human and we have feelings, despite Damon's protests otherwise," Stefan said dejectedly, as he tried to walk away.

"I'm sorry, Stefan. Please don't walk away from me, from us. We can get through this we can.."

"Can we get through the fact that Lisette was Caroline's great-grandmother?" Stefan said, his anger and hurt making him blurt out the truth.

"What did you just say?" Elena asked, stunned.

"He said he used to be engaged to Blondie's great whatever grandmother. And let me tell you, Lisette was a real hottie," Damon said wriggling his eyebrows.

"And she was a werewolf. I had Emily bind her powers and those of her lineage," Stefan said, staring at Elena coldly.

Elena was in a total state of shock. Stefan being engaged was hard enough, but to find out that he was connected to Caroline, was too much.

"Another lie Stefan. Does Caro look just like this Lisette or am I the only mirror image walking around town?"

"Caroline looks nothing and is nothing like Lisette. You on the other hand look and act just like Katherine. Oh, you cover it up really well under a coat of sweetness and charm, but underneath you want to be the center of everyone's world and what anyone else's wants or needs comes second to your own," Stefan said, voice steadily rising. He wanted to leave, but his need to express the words that had been forming inside him lately got the better of him. He looked over Elena one last time and again tried to leave.

"No, you can't leave like this," Elena said grabbing his arm.

"Get the hell away from me," Stefan yelled, eyes turning black with purple veins appearing. He took a deep breath and calmed himself. "Just stay away from me Elena, you and I are done." Using his vampire speed he left the house.

Elena tried in vain to stop Stefan. She ran to the doorway and tearfully, yelled at the blur disappearing into the forest. "Stefan, come back. I love you Stefan. I'm sorry, so sorry. Don't leave me."